Crysis 3 pops up for sale on Origin, EA pretends it never happened

The real story is the listings only asked $50 for both PC and Xbox 360

The internet sees and screenshots everything! This morning, the clever folks over at Neogaf caught EA's Origin service putting up a listing for Crysis 3 Limited Editions, complete with box art. The listings, naturally, have since been removed and EA, naturally, have no comment. All we can assume is that Crysis 3 may in fact be an urban bow simulation game.

Crytek formed a partnership with EA starting with Crysis, which explains the title's appearance on Origin. Certainly not how anyone wanted the game to be revealed however, as it seems German gaming magazine GameReactor has an exclusive on the reveal and is only days away from it being on shelves. Some poor EA technician who was adding box art pictures to the game's Origin profile clicks "Publish," instead of "Save," and everything is spoiled.

Not much more to say, after that. The box art has a compound bow, is in an urban setting much like Crysis 2, and we can see the suit is still a primary focus. I'd probably be willing to bet the game will look gorgeous, play a little rough and have mediocre to terrible story-telling, but that's just my experience with the series. Would be hard to tell that much from box art with a dude holding a bow, right?

As one last detail, Crysis 3 listings showed versions available for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.